[BBLISA] Who broke audacity?

[Scott Ehrlich]

I use my Ubuntu Gutsy box for three main things - email via ssh, email via web, 
and preserving my cassette music collection via Audacity. Everything has been 
working flawlessly, until tonight.   I'd last successfully recorded stuff two 
nights ago (Sunday), most of the day.

But today, when I turned on my system, audacity didn't show the normal device 
it wants to record from (line 1).  When I told it to record, it claimed the 
device was in use.  After a couple rounds of broken record attempts did I 
realize the device options were not listed.

I visited Edit > Preferences and discovered the playback and record drop-down 
lists were non-functional.

I visited System > Preferences > Sound and tested audio.  It worked fine.

What happened to audacity?   Did some apt-get or aptitude update package break 
something from Sunday night, the last time I think I may have updated stuff?

I tried an aptitude reinstall audacity, and did an rm -rf ~/.audacity-data, but 
nothing helps.

What happened?

Thanks.

Scott